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Dialogue: The Unarmed Prophet and the Armed World

A conversation between Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolò Machiavelli

Florence. Night. The Piazza della Signoria is empty, though the stones still remember fire. The ghost of Girolamo Savonarola stands near the place where he was hanged and burned. Niccolò Machiavelli enters, older now, carrying a manuscript beneath his arm.

SAVONAROLA:
You return to the place of ashes, Messer Niccolò.

MACHIAVELLI:
Florence has many places of ashes, Fra Girolamo. Yours is only the most famous.

SAVONAROLA:
And you have made use of it.

MACHIAVELLI:
I made use of what happened. That is not the same as rejoicing in it.

SAVONAROLA:
You wrote that I was ruined because I was unarmed.

MACHIAVELLI:
Were you not?

SAVONAROLA:
I preached repentance. I called a city to righteousness. I turned hearts toward God.

MACHIAVELLI:
For a time.

SAVONAROLA:
Truth is not false because men grow tired of it.

Read the full Dialogue at PeaceGrooves.

The Decisive Revolution

“Jesus is risen. The decisive revolution in world history has happened – a revolution of all-conquering love. If people would fully receive this revealed love into their own existence, into the reality of the ‘now’, then the logic of insanity could no longer continue.”

There are some lines that feel less like commentary and more like a struck bell. Rudi Dutschke’s Easter words are like that. They do not merely describe resurrection; they announce it as a historical detonation, a rupture in the order of things. They refuse to let Easter remain tucked away in pious sentiment, safe sanctuary ritual, or abstract doctrine. Instead, they cast resurrection as revolution. Not one revolution among many, but the decisive revolution in world history.

That is a breathtaking claim.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves:

https://peacegrooves1.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/the-decisive-revolution/

Just arrived: this important book is based on conferences at Cambridge and Oxford a couple years ago. My own piece is on how the concept of the Katechon is being utilized by Alexander Dugin to justify, legitimate, and sanctify Russia’s imperial war of aggression. #Russia #war #Ukraine #Dugin #politicaltheology #philosophy #theology #Christianity #orthodoxy #CarlSchmitt https://www.dustinjbyrd.org

Irenaeus of Lyons (one of the Church Fathers), writing somewhere between 174-189 A.D., notes in his work “Against Heresies”:

“Whatsoever [the magistrates] do to the subversion of justice, iniquitously, and impiously, and illegally, and tyrannically, in these things shall they also perish.”

Sit with that for a moment.

#politicaltheology #christianity #theologidon

@jackhutton
Indeed, the #PoliticalTheology of #ThirdRome https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/17/third-rome/

'Ma il vero paradosso non sta nella tesi schmittiana, bensì nel fatto che quasi nessuno ha mai negato la realtà dell’origine impura del diritto, così come la sua dipendenza dalla decisione in momenti eccezionali'.

– Federico Zuolo, su Carl Schmitt's *Teologia Politica*, https://www.quodlibet.it/recensione/5639

#CarlSchmitt #PoliticalTheology #TeologiaPolitica #Theology #Teologia #Books #Libri #Liberalism #Liberalismo

The Future of Political Theology - IV. Feminism and Inter-religious Dialogue in the New Political
Theology

Johann M. Vento
Horizons, Vol 34 (02), 2007, pp 321 - 328

#religion #feminism #gender #politicaltheology #theology #dialogue

https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/S0360966900004497

Beyond Revolution, Beyond the Law: Christian Anarchism in Conversation with Giorgio Agamben

Katrina Kniss

Political Theology, Vol 20, 2019 - Issue 3

https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/1462317X.2018.1533200

#anarchism #religion #socialism #theology #politicaltheology #christianity #christiananarchism

Alright, here's my #FollowBackFriday pitch. I'm a writer. I've covered governing and education as well as done comms work around #txlege / #txpolitics

Now I've sold out and just do comms to pay the bills. I still follow #politics #politicaltheology #theology #criticaltheory and write about it. My spicy stuff is here: https://joelnihlean.medium.com

Let's meet, you new and interesting internet people.

Here's a pic of my dog in The Cone of Shame. #ff #followfriday #dogsofmastodon

Ok, consider this my #twittermigration post.

I'm a writer. I've written for magazines on governing as well as done comms work around #txlege / #txpolitics

I follow #politics and occasionally still write about it. My spicy stuff is here: https://joelnihlean.medium.com

I also think a lot about #politicaltheology #theology #criticaltheory and related stuff.

Anyway, say 'hi' and follow. I'll follow you back. Looking forward to meeting new and interesting internet people.

Here's a pic of my dog.

#Introduction Luke Collison, studied #philosophy at #CRMEP Current teaching a little #PoliticalPhilosophy at University of Cologne. Research interests:
#ThePolitical in the post-#CarlSchmitt sense,
#PoliticalTheology
#Katechon
#GeorgesSorel
#MichelFoucault
#Infrastructure
#Counter-Infrastructure
#CriticalInfrastructureStudies
#EnergyHumanities
#InstitutionTheory
#JoachimRitter
#PhilosophicalAnthropology
#ErnstWolfgangBöckenförde

etc

Let's call this my #hashtag interests intro, in no particular order:

#Writing
#WritingCommunity
#SpecFic
#SFF
#Fantasy
#AmReading
#Audiobooks
#Oregon
#Arthurian
#HolyGrail
#Andor
#StarWars
#RingsOfPower
#Severance
#Lost
#TwinPeaks
#KDrama
#Tolkien
#CormacMcCarthy
#SusannaClarke
#Inklings
#TwitterMigration
#ValentinTomberg
#Dickens
#Shakespeare
#AntiFascist
#Democracy
#UmbertoEco
#Esoterica
#Catholic
#PoliticalTheology
#PoliticalTheory

#Introduction I am William and came over here from the bird site to try it out. I am a third year student at the University of Glasgow studying #theology and religious studies. I am interested in the intersection of #environmentaltheology , #politicaltheology and #processtheology.

I am a #tradeunion representative with the GMB union in the first unionised Apple Store in the UK. I am also a @ScottishGreens member and supporter of Scottish independence.

'Ma il vero paradosso non sta nella tesi schmittiana, bensì nel fatto che quasi nessuno ha mai negato la realtà dell’origine impura del diritto, così come la sua dipendenza dalla decisione in momenti eccezionali'.

– Federico Zuolo, su Carl Schmitt's *Teologia Politica*, https://www.quodlibet.it/recensione/5639

#CarlSchmitt #PoliticalTheology #TeologiaPolitica #Theology #Teologia #Books #Libri #Liberalism #Liberalismo

'Ma il vero paradosso non sta nella tesi schmittiana, bensì nel fatto che quasi nessuno ha mai negato la realtà dell’origine impura del diritto, così come la sua dipendenza dalla decisione in momenti eccezionali'.

– Federico Zuolo, su Carl Schmitt's *Teologia Politica*, https://www.quodlibet.it/recensione/5639

#CarlSchmitt #PoliticalTheology #TeologiaPolitica #Theology #Teologia #Books #Libri #Liberalism #Liberalismo

'Ma il vero paradosso non sta nella tesi schmittiana, bensì nel fatto che quasi nessuno ha mai negato la realtà dell’origine impura del diritto, così come la sua dipendenza dalla decisione in momenti eccezionali'.

– Federico Zuolo, su Carl Schmitt's *Teologia Politica*, https://www.quodlibet.it/recensione/5639

#CarlSchmitt #PoliticalTheology #TeologiaPolitica #Theology #Teologia #Books #Libri #Liberalism #Liberalismo

#Introduction Luke Collison, studied #philosophy at #CRMEP Current teaching a little #PoliticalPhilosophy at University of Cologne. Research interests:
#ThePolitical in the post-#CarlSchmitt sense,
#PoliticalTheology
#Katechon
#GeorgesSorel
#MichelFoucault
#Infrastructure
#Counter-Infrastructure
#CriticalInfrastructureStudies
#EnergyHumanities
#InstitutionTheory
#JoachimRitter
#PhilosophicalAnthropology
#ErnstWolfgangBöckenförde

etc

#Introduction Luke Collison, studied #philosophy at #CRMEP Current teaching a little #PoliticalPhilosophy at University of Cologne. Research interests:
#ThePolitical in the post-#CarlSchmitt sense,
#PoliticalTheology
#Katechon
#GeorgesSorel
#MichelFoucault
#Infrastructure
#Counter-Infrastructure
#CriticalInfrastructureStudies
#EnergyHumanities
#InstitutionTheory
#JoachimRitter
#PhilosophicalAnthropology
#ErnstWolfgangBöckenförde

etc

#Introduction Luke Collison, studied #philosophy at #CRMEP Current teaching a little #PoliticalPhilosophy at University of Cologne. Research interests:
#ThePolitical in the post-#CarlSchmitt sense,
#PoliticalTheology
#Katechon
#GeorgesSorel
#MichelFoucault
#Infrastructure
#Counter-Infrastructure
#CriticalInfrastructureStudies
#EnergyHumanities
#InstitutionTheory
#JoachimRitter
#PhilosophicalAnthropology
#ErnstWolfgangBöckenförde

etc

#Introduction I am William and came over here from the bird site to try it out. I am a third year student at the University of Glasgow studying #theology and religious studies. I am interested in the intersection of #environmentaltheology , #politicaltheology and #processtheology.

I am a #tradeunion representative with the GMB union in the first unionised Apple Store in the UK. I am also a @ScottishGreens member and supporter of Scottish independence.

#Introduction I am William and came over here from the bird site to try it out. I am a third year student at the University of Glasgow studying #theology and religious studies. I am interested in the intersection of #environmentaltheology , #politicaltheology and #processtheology.

I am a #tradeunion representative with the GMB union in the first unionised Apple Store in the UK. I am also a @ScottishGreens member and supporter of Scottish independence.

#Introduction I am William and came over here from the bird site to try it out. I am a third year student at the University of Glasgow studying #theology and religious studies. I am interested in the intersection of #environmentaltheology , #politicaltheology and #processtheology.

I am a #tradeunion representative with the GMB union in the first unionised Apple Store in the UK. I am also a @ScottishGreens member and supporter of Scottish independence.

#Introduction I am William and came over here from the bird site to try it out. I am a third year student at the University of Glasgow studying #theology and religious studies. I am interested in the intersection of #environmentaltheology , #politicaltheology and #processtheology.

I am a #tradeunion representative with the GMB union in the first unionised Apple Store in the UK. I am also a @ScottishGreens member and supporter of Scottish independence.

@jackhutton
Indeed, the #PoliticalTheology of #ThirdRome https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/17/third-rome/

@jackhutton
Indeed, the #PoliticalTheology of #ThirdRome https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/17/third-rome/

@jackhutton
Indeed, the #PoliticalTheology of #ThirdRome https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/17/third-rome/

@jackhutton
Indeed, the #PoliticalTheology of #ThirdRome https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/02/17/third-rome/

'Challenges for Discipleship in the Context of the War of Attrition: The Ukrainian Case' - an article in the European Journal of #Theology, published by Amsterdam University Press on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=fa7af51a-bbfe-4433-8682-971aec186646

#Discipleship #WarOfAttrition #EvangelicalTheology #PoliticalTheology

'Challenges for Discipleship in the Context of the War of Attrition: The Ukrainian Case' - an article in the European Journal of #Theology, published by Amsterdam University Press on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=fa7af51a-bbfe-4433-8682-971aec186646

#Discipleship #WarOfAttrition #EvangelicalTheology #PoliticalTheology

'Challenges for Discipleship in the Context of the War of Attrition: The Ukrainian Case' - an article in the European Journal of #Theology, published by Amsterdam University Press on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=fa7af51a-bbfe-4433-8682-971aec186646

#Discipleship #WarOfAttrition #EvangelicalTheology #PoliticalTheology